Do Something That Matters Quotes

#1. Remember, it's not what you do but that you do something that matters.

Cherie Carter-Scott

#2. I have been sitting around waiting for an opportunity to get to do something that matters for so long. Not just that matters in the world, which I think that season, in particular, had a very important meaning for a lot of people, but for me, as an actress.

Sarah Paulson

#3. I want to do something that matters.

Trent Reznor

#4. I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

John Green

#5. The thing is, the future happens. Every single day, like it or not. Sure, tomorrow is risky, frightening and in some way represents one step closer to the end. But it also brings with it the possibility of better and the chance to do something that matters.

Seth Godin

#6. If you are going to do something, do something that matters.

Jason Fried

#7. If you're going to do something, do something that matters. Don't waste your time doing stupid things with even bigger losers going nowhere.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#8. I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters

Linus Torvalds

#9. Magicians can be confusing, but
when Moses arrives and throws down the rod that becomes a dragon, how do the trick bowls
look then? When something that alive comes, illusory matters fade. They quit bragging!
A body's death, even, is beautiful to those who see with the soul's eye.

Rumi

#10. Then we'll all go to the movies or go bowling. Something normal people do."

"Because we're so normal, right?"

He raised his hand high and let the first crack of his palm rain down on her ass. "This is our normal. It's the only normal that matters.

Alyssa Turner

#11. It is not the place where we are, or the work that we do or cannot do that matters, it is something else. It is the fire within that burns and shines, whatever be our circumstances.

Amy Carmichael

#12. One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

Agnes De Mille

#13. Humans are so ignorant. That word means something else, but you use it to try to insult others. You do realize that only humans view such things as homosexuality as a sin. In the other realms it is nothing it doesn't exist as love is love and gender matters not.

Kerri E. Lorenz

#14. 'Thank you' is often an admission that you needed something that wasn't being fulfilled or you couldn't do on your own, so you needed someone else. There is also guilt. We think, 'Well, too much time has gone by, and it doesn't matter,' but it does. It always matters.

Elizabeth Banks

#15. If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead ... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.

Katharine Hepburn

#16. I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.

Harry Chapin

#17. If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.

Valerie June

#18. All that matters is that you be the very best you you can be ...
And that's something no one else can do.

Aaron Blaylock

#19. I think it's more honest, true to life, to write about serious matters. And also not to do something that's gentle. I like to put, ideally, belly laughs on one side, and really serious moments on the other. So they kind of come up against each other.

Guy Jenkin

#20. Find something you believe in. Then, just do it. That's what matters.

Kathleen Flinn

#21. If it is something that can be embarrassing or potentially lead to the loss
of employment, do not put it on the Internet - even if you think no one
who matters will see it.

Aliah D. Wright

#22. I have found that what drives me is the desire to prove, to myself and to my peers, that I can do what I set out to do and build something that matters.

Daniel Snyder

#23. 'Motivation matters,' he said again, 'because why you do something connects to how you do it, who you do it to, or for. And maybe what you see at the end of it-if you're looking that far.'

Nora Roberts

#24. Struggle and pain aren't something to fear. We will all face trials while here on earth. What matters is how we're dealing with the challenges that come our way. Do we let them mold us into stronger, better people, or do we grouse and complain about our lot in life?

Colleen Coble

#25. The only thing that matters in this game is the score, something hackers never quite understand, even when they think they do. If you can't make a shot eighty percent of the time and there's a penalty if you don't, you shouldn't try it. Ever. No matter where you are.

James Patterson

#26. All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do something that really matters, that will make life better for a lot of people.

Michael Ignatieff

#27. Facebook is a really exciting place trying to do something really important that I really believe in. And it matters.

Sheryl Sandberg

#28. Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up.

Stephen Hawking

#29. If something can be proven to work, we should try it ... Making sure that our young folk get the best education is the only thing that matters to me, and if something can be shown to work in doing that or if something's worth trying to do that, then I'll certainly be in the market for it.

Nicola Sturgeon

#30. Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.

Blythe Danner

#31. Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.

Madeleine L'Engle

#32. Don't go to eighth grade ... don't talk about something old ... don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.

Brad Meltzer

#33. The drawing is also a reminder that there's an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do the work, to make something that matters, regardless of anything else that is going on.

Steven Pressfield

#34. None of you need worry because you read something that was incompletely reported. You need not worry that I do not understand some matters of doctrine ... I think I understand them thoroughly.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#35. Yeah, the world must be going to a camp-meeting hell when something like that can happen, ' I agreed. 'But that don't matter now. All that matters now is, do we have an understanding here or do you want to see if you can learn how to breathe through your forehead?

Stephen King

#36. In business, as in life, all that matters is that you do something positive.

Richard Branson

#37. The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

Noam Chomsky

#38. There is something beyond freedom that people need: work, love, belief in something, commitment to something. Freedom is not enough.It's necessary but it'd not sufficient. It's what you do with freedom - what you give it up for - that matters

Lev Grossman

#39. It doesn't matter where you come from. There's nothing you can do about it, so don't waste your energy thinking about it. What matters is where you're going. And that, mate, is something you can control.

Tana French

#40. The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.

Drew Houston

#41. Obstinacy is perhaps the only human quality that matters at the end of the day, not only in the profession of the policeman but in many professions. At least in any that have something to do with the notion of truth.

Michel Houellebecq

#42. Even if you fail or do something stupid, if you can laugh in the end, that's all that matters.

Kei Kanai